unvenerableとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

unvenerable (comparative more unvenerable, superlative most unvenerable)

1. Not venerable.
   • 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 3, Landlord Edmund

     Sons of God, in opposition to Unjust and Sons of Belial, - which latter indeed are second-oldest, but yet a very unvenerable order.

   • 2007 September 30, Pico Iyer, “A View of the Bosporus”, New York Times:

     This gift for taking the urgent issues of the day and presenting them as detective stories that race past like footfalls down an alleyway has made Pamuk the best-selling writer in the history of his native Turkey and the deserving winner of last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, at the unvenerable age of 54.